This is encouraging news, especially given that the bill, the Northern Nevada Land Conservation and Economic Development Act (H.R. 5205), advanced in the midst of Wilderness Week, a national event sponsored by The Wilderness Society and partner groups to bring Americans to D.C.

A National Park Service ranger recently reported that a chunk had been taken out of a bone belonging to a sauropod--the iconic suborder of long-necked dinosaurs--on the well-trafficked Fossil Discovery Trail, pr